Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] I'm worried..
From: Bill Stewart-Cole (bill@finan.com)
Date: Tue Jan 20 1998 - 17:52:56 EST
At 4:41 PM -0600 1/20/98, Tony Moran wrote:
>I've just got netatalk going fine and purring, and am about to bring
>the Server on-line for the masses..well..all twenty of us anyway..
>But, with a bit of talk recently on the list about Mac->Unix file translation,
>I'm really worried about the prospect of files being mis-translated or
>somehow corrupted. Especially important graphics and database/spreadsheet
>files..
The ONLY way you risk that is if you have line-ending translation turned
on. IMHO it is a dangerous feature, and should not be turned on by anyone
who uses anything other than plain text files on the server.
>What are the opinions and experiences out there ? - Do the default mappings
>that come in AppleVolumes.system suffice to take care of everything to
>satisfaction or have they caused problems for people..?
The default mappings are too few for most people I would think. They are
not going to corrupt anything, they just might make file opening a bit of
as challenge.
>I also added in additional mappings that were supplied to the list from
>last year,
>hoping to cover as many file types as possible, tho the users here tend
>not to
>suffix files according to the file type - tending to rely on longish
>descriptive
>names instead. I noticed that the new mappongs I took from the
>list-posting used
>completely new file typings, like GKON, R*CH, SCPL - was I wise to add these
>into AppleVolumes.system ?
Probably not, since those sound like my preferred mappings... :)
But seriously, The creator field is a lot less important than the type
field. Respectively those are GraphicConvertor, BBEdit, and SoundApp, all
of which are very nice programs in their own way, although none is likely
the most common tool for opening the files that they are capable of
opening.
The result of using a creator code that is 'wrong' for you is that
double-clicking the file will either open an application you don't want to
use for that type of file OR if you don't have that application, provide
ither a selection of applications capable of opening it (if Easy Open is
installed) or an 'application not found' error. Getting the type wrong is a
bit worse since any program that looks at it will expect one format and
find another, and report the file is corrupted when in fact it is perfectly
fine for its REAL type.
---- Bill Stewart-Cole This space for rent. Inquire within.
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